Dave Reichert — Hunting the Green River Killer | Part 2

Heroes Behind the Badge · Oct 22, 2026 · 34m

For years, Gary Ridgway was at the top of the Green River task force's suspect list, but investigators lacked the evidence and the science to prove it. In Part 2, former King County Sheriff Dave Reichert describes how that changed.

DNA evidence collected in 1982 was sent to an East Coast lab in 1999, which warned that testing might destroy the sample. In 2001 the lab had the technology, and that September the results came back. Detectives brought a chart to the sheriff's office and handed Reichert an envelope. He didn't need to open it.

Reichert explains why investigators kept Ridgway under…